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BBC business presenter Steph McGovern recently revealed that when
she first went on screen a viewer was so outraged at her Teesside
accent that they sent her £20 to “put right” her “terrible affliction”
.
Middlesbrough-born Steph, who is business editor for BBC1’s Breakfast,
revealed: “I think people tend to underestimate you when you have
a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk